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This weekend sees DC’s charges head north west to the Mazuma Stadium Morecambe. The 284-mile journey, one of the longest for the U’s this season. By contrast it is only 62 miles for me and one of my shorter trips.
Frankly this is a game that we should be capable of winning and I am predicting a 2-0 success for the super U’s.
5 points after 5 games suggests another season of struggle, but I am confident that our players will begin to gel in DC’s new squad as he determines his best XI to start and strongest bench of substitutes.
However, what is his best XI?
My view is that we should be starting in Lancashire as follows 3,4,3:
Macey
Flanagan Goodliffe Iandolo
Egbo Payne Read Woodyard
Edwards Tovide Taylor
Subs: Smith Scully Anderson Bishop Donnelly Hopper Gordon
Once again the subs should be used to maximum impact but DC needs a settled starting XI.
Weather in Morecambe will be sunny, 17 degrees Celsius, dry but breezy.
Derek Adams side will be eager to get off to a good start after disappointing results albeit all league games have resulted in 1-0 defeats. One thing is certain we do not need another Away performance like that experienced at FGR last season.
I want to see Tovide and Taylor on the scoresheet tomorrow.
Safe journey to the travelling faithful.
Enjoy the game.
Up the U’s
Durham_exile
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 06:02 - Sep 15 with 1515 views
I’m a big fan of DC and I believe he will come good eventually. I just wish he would stop changing half the team each game. Some times it’s needed and sometimes it’s not. Yesterday was a perfect example of when it’s not. We had found our footing and were looking in control. We could have cruised home.
He also needs to stop bigging up the opposition every week as if we’re playing Brazil. Every time I listen to his prematch interview I come away thinking “it sounds like we might struggle against them”. He convinced me Morecambe were a decent team. Turns out they weren’t. Can’t believe we drew that game.
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 09:41 - Sep 15 with 1410 views
I missed the game, so can't comment, but one worrying observation. Of the 6 teams we've played so far, only 1 is in the top 14 places in the league, and they stuffed 4 passed us (albeit with the help of the ref).
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 10:54 - Sep 15 with 1369 views
We were poor for most of the first 15-20 minutes and struggled to string passes together and establish any sort of rhythm. Their goal was a worldie, nothing Macey could do much about, but it did at least give us a bit of a kick up the arse. Second half of the first half we finally started to gel, although Morecambe were still a threat against our disjointed back line.
Two simple yellow cards and they’re down to 10 men (after their manager had already received the same). Lovely free kick in from Bishop and there was Edwards to rightly level the score. Second half things really started to click against an exceptionally poor side, great poachers finish from Samson to take the lead, and then an even better pass to give Taylor his first goal for the U’s. On Taylor, his touch looked a bit rusty for much of the first half, but he was really settling in and causing problems.
However, we were still allowing Morecambe chances, even at 3-1 we didn’t look safe. Having failed to convert a string of half-decent chances to extend the lead, the biggest mistake of the afternoon was unfortunately probably Danny Cowley’s. Swapping Read for Bishop I could understand, but not withdrawing Taylor, Goodliffe and Edwards in rapid succession. I get it’s all about team and game management, and 3-1 up against 10 men we should have been home and hosed, but it just ruined the cohesion and left us back as we were in the beginning of the first half.
As for the capitulation, you couldn’t make it up. Another incredibly soft penalty, even if Macey was a fingertip away from keeping out a perfect spot kick. Then Scully crashes one off the underside of the bar and the normally reliable Anderson blazes high and wide in front of an open goal. And finally, the coup de grace - lanky ex-Shrimper Dackers spurns the chance to equalise with a shot that was heading closer to the corner flag than the goal, only for it to cannon off Flanagan’s head and loop past a flat-footed Macey. Even though we tried, by then we were too disjointed to come back from that.
Danny talks about taking the learning often, I hope he does from yesterday.
Thanks for your thoughts. The great thing about football is that we all see different qualities (or not) in players. If you were at the match yesterday maybe you saw more of those qualities. I was watching the terrible coverage on ifollow and of course you miss a lot of the off ball work. That said, I have seen Taylor at the JCS and, so far, am not convinced. To me, he looks bulky (see photos of his physique from a few years ago) and off the pace. He does track back but not to the extent that Hopper does. I think he needs more time to convince the faithful - it's early days yet. He certainly hasn't got the kind of positive and enthusiastic response that Akinde always got, at least in the area where I sit.
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 12:01 - Sep 15 with 1313 views
This is something that really flabbergasts me his constant talking up of the opposition. He could make a hung over Sunday league team like a prime Barcelona. He has more facts and figures than an accountant doing a tax return. But we fail time and time again to do our job.
It’s league 2 football just concentrate on what we are doing. The rest will fall into place.
He doesn’t seem to have the rite train of thought. It’s all over the gaff.
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 13:39 - Sep 15 with 1271 views
I listened to the match in my garage between around 3.30 till 4.30. We were leading 3 - 1 and l thought it was game over.
I went indoors to frame some art ( and made such a mess of it l had to start again ). At about 5.45 l switched on the TV to check out the results on the text.
It said - Morecambe 3 Colchester 3. I had to look again. We were up against 10 men who didn't sound much above National League North level - if that.
It was quite a shock. I was fully expecting Morecambe 1 Colchester 5. That is what it should have been.
I attended the recent Brentford match and enjoyed the evening and the football but as my interest in sport has drained away in recent years sides of Morecambe's calibre are unlikely to entice me back to The Jobserve later in the season.
I like what the Cowley's are about but was rather perplexed when Danny described Division 2 as a 'brilliant league'.
I don't rate the league much and would be looking to win it.
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 19:39 - Sep 15 with 1034 views
1. First Morecambe goal marginally offside. 2. Linesman then missed three foul throws. Front foot “no-ball” by about 3 feet! 3. We vocally complain to linesman - who then (justifiably) flags foul throws four & five! 4. Morecambe manager, Adams complains, gets sent to stand. 5. Steward tells us player gets away with this every week. 6. U’s take complete control. Zero threat from ten man home team. 7. DC makes five bizarre changes in 8 minutes. 8. We fall apart in final 10 minutes. No shape, no coordination, just awful.
The Cowley honeymoon is over. Hopper, Anderson, Hunt just not good enough. Anderson miss of the century. My granny could have scored with her eyes shut.
Six hour journey home. £100 out of pocket. Cowleys and Players should hang their heads in shame.
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(No subject) (n/t) on 19:39 - Sep 15 with 1034 views
I could only watch the live stream but at the final whistle my first thought was "what about all the people who'd travelled to Morecambe?". I feel your pain.
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 08:54 - Sep 16 with 887 views
Not a great result, going 3-1 up and only drawing against 10 men - we need to be more ruthless though we are finding the net now.
But we are on 6 points and a number of teams look in far worse shape than us atm.
I am thinking half full rather than half empty at the moment but I wouldn't write our season off after 6 games just yet. Hopefully LT and ST will become regular goal scorers for us - we need them to as the defence still seems to be gelling and DC needs to keep the players likely to win us matches on the pitch.
In our first season in the Championship we had six points after six games. In our promotion season we only had five points after six games. And the last time we reached the play-offs we had eight points after six games. Like you say, it's not great but there's a long way to go and definitely positives to be taken from the performances so far.
In 1912-13 Sunderland drew two and lost five of their first seven league games leaving them on two points. It was a 38 match season and two points for a win of course. Sunderland won the league by a four point margin ahead of Aston Villa.
So with 120 points still to play for it is, as you say, very early days.
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 13:02 - Sep 17 with 466 views
Birmingham City, West Bromwich Albion, Derby County, Burnley, Plymouth Argyle and Barnsley.
18 years later and it’s the dizzy heights of: Morecambe, Bromley, Accrington Stanley, Harrogate Town, MK Dongs and AFC Wimbledon.
I remember leaving our first game at St Andrews in 2006 thinking that we were going to be thrashed every week. A few months later and we were serious contenders for the play-offs. A couple of wins on the bounce and the world would look a lot more rosy.
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Shrimps to be potted by DC's Super U's at Mazuma Stadium on 13:15 - Sep 17 with 448 views
If you woke up from a 10 year coma and saw that Braintree’s fixture list included Oldham, Southend, Rochdale, Halifax, Hartlepool and Aldershot, whereas ours included Bromley, Barrow, Harrogate, Morecambe, Fleetwood and Salford, you could be excused for thinking that the world had gone mad.
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